Final Cut Pro Compressor: Pro Res to H.264

Hi, I'm a business / startup guy ramping up a knowledge base of all things digital video. We'll be receiving a good number of Pro Res files, all of which we'll need to compress to H.264. My question is about time. I'm looking at the Mac Pro four core. Here are my thoughts:
1. How long should it take to compress a two hour film from Pro Res to H.264 (high)
2. If we were to run four instances of Compressor, one for each core, would there be an increase in compression time
That's all, thanks in advance

The first question is one with too many variables for a single answer. Here is an article that discusses H.264 compression speeds on a MP compared to an iMac and which takes into account some of those variables.
To the second question,again, it all depends. Here is an article by the same author on that subject as well as an Apple support doc. that should be helpful.
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